SF @ BAL
Home plate: Chris Segal
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball
Pete Alonso vs Adrian Houser - 2-0.69▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Taylor Ward vs JT Brubaker - 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Taylor Ward vs Adrian Houser
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Taylor Ward — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Erik Miller — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Taylor Ward — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Pete Alonso — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.